Sample-pasting machine.



W. C. HADLEY.

SAMPLE PASTING MACHSNE.

APPLICATION FILED 001. s. 1915.

1 29,259 Patented June 12, 1917.

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APPLICATION FILED OCT. 6 I915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 12, 1917.

Application filed October 6, 1915. Serial No. 54,454.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER O. HADLEY, a citizen of the United'States, residing at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Sample-Pasting Machine, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide a machine for the purpose of rapidly, accurately and economically aflixing or mounting by the use of adhesive substance as paste, to a sheet of cardboard, paper or other ,ma terial called card, without separate handling, one or more pieces of cloth or other material called patches, the resulting card with patch or patches affixed, being desig' nated a sample card.

The present method of hand pasting, now in common use, is slow and expensive. Every individual patch or the like must be repeatedly handled and separately pasted, and then laboriously alined on the card; and further, there is frequent waste of material, due to hand soiled patches and cards, and to imperfect alinement of patches, one with another or with the edges of the card; for to use such sample cards would defeat the object of making themnamely to present samples to the buying trade in such an attractive manner as to create a desire to purchase the original itself.

By means of my invention not only may one or more complete sample cards be made at a time and at a muchreduced cost over present methods,but each card becomes faultless in appearance, by reason of the perfect alinement and cleanliness of patches and cards.

In the drawings illustrating the principle of my invention, and the best mode now known to me of embodying the same in an operative structure,

Figure 1. is a plan View of the apparatus; the positions of the card holder when cooperating with the paste applying plates, and with the patch box are shown in dotted lines. i

Fig. 2. showsin elevation, but in reduced size, said apparatus, together with suitable paste boX and applying rolls, and presser rolls.

Fig. 3. is a longitudinal section on line 3-3 Fig. 1.

Fig. 4. is a side elevation, with card holder moving downward. to engage a patch box and patches therein to aflix the backs of the latter to a card in the holder.

Fig. 5. is a similar view, but with the card holder, patch box and patches depressed; the patches being in affixing contact with the adjacent card in the holder.

Fig. 6. is a plan view of a sample card showing the faces of the patches after the patches have been aflixed by the operation illustrated in Fig. 5.

Fig. 7. is a plan of piping and controlling valve for furnishing an air blast to insure a separation of a patch affixed to the card, from the top patch left in the pile.

Fig. 8. is an enlarged detail of a guide piece and patch pile support, with air jet openings to insure said separation of the patches.

Fig. 9. is a vertical section, enlarged, of what is shown in Fig. 8.

Rising from a rectangular base 1, Figs. 1, and 4 at its two rear corner portions, are two standards 2, which support a guide rod 3, circular in cross section, and retained thereon by a binding screw 4. Slidable and pivoted on this rod, is a card holder 5, near whose front edge portion is a handle 6 to raise and lower, and move longitudinally, the card holder, about and along the guide rod 3. Guide collars 3 3 Fig. 1, are secured to the rod 3 by binding screws 3 to limit the movements of the card holder along the rod.

Located, say, in front of the rear portion of the base, is a table 7, Fig. 1, the height of the top 8 of which is about the same as that of the guide rod. Upon the righthand portion of the table are arranged paste applying metal plates 9, Fig. 1, which correspond substantially to the size and positions which the patches of cloth 10, Fig. 6, are to assume when affixed to a card 11, to form a sample card, say, like that shown in Fig. 6. Their surfaces are scored diagonally, preferably, to form squares about 1; on a side, the grooves being about wide, to hold and deliver evenly a given quantity of paste where wanted on the surface of the card.

Over the lefthand portion of the base 1, Figs. 1, 2, and 3, is arranged what may be termed the patch pocket mechanism 12. A plate 13, Fig. 3, is supported centrally by a. rod 14 having a bearing in a boss 15 in the base 1; a coil spring 16 abutting the boss and the underside of the plate 13, and always tending to hold the top of the plate against the under side of the table top 8. An opening 17, slightly smaller than the plate 13, is formed in the table top, permitting angle guide pieces 18 fixed in the four corners of the plate 13, to engage corresponding corners in the table top, thus simultaneously preventing a rotary movement, yet permitting a vertical movement of the plate 13. These: guide pieces 18, together with stacking blocks 19 are all of the same height, and formed with vertical corner surfaces whereby they will form side guides for, and retain in vertical position, a numberof stacks of patches 20, supported, each upon a patch supporting plate 21 the corners of which also are guided by the said corner surfaces of the guide pieces 18 and the stack-' ing blocks 19. The sides of the angle guides and stacking blocks are slightly sloping on the sides next the stacks of patches and beveled so that the patch pockets formed by them are a little larger at the bottom than at the top to allow for slightly varying sizes of swatches from imperfect cutting. This fact is so slight that it does not appear from the drawings. Each of these patch supporting plates is centrally supported upon a rod 22, passing through a boss upon the base 1 and a coil spring 23 abutting the boss and the underside of a ring on the rod 22.

It will be noticed that each of the guide pieces 18 and the stacking blocks 19, has vertical channels 24, see Figs. 8 and 9, slightly deflected inwardly at the top, and opening on an inwardly and downwardly inclined surface 25 just below its top edge. To these channels are led, pieces of tubing, perfectly flexible rubber 26, which in turn, are 'connectedto supply pipes 27 branched from a main pipe 28 connected with a suitable source of pneumatic pressure, and having a valve 29 to open, close and control the air pressure. An arm 30, operating the valve is connected to the main patch pocket plate 13 by a link 31 pivoted both to the arm and to the plate; the valve being closed when the parts are in position shown in Fig. 3. r

The under portion of the card holder 5 has an inwardly extending lip 32, Figs. 1-

and 3, along its rear and side edges, adapted to receive and removably retain the corresponding edge portions of, say, a dozen cards 11; said lip, however, when the card holder lies respectively over the pasting plates 9 and the patch pocket mechanism 12, lying outside of the pasting plates and of the stack supporting blocks and guide pieces, and permitting the card to engage the tops of said pasting plates and card stack blocks, as will more fully appear hereinafter.

Conveniently arranged, as on each side of the above-described mechanism, are paste apparatus 132, Fig. 2, say on the right, and presser mechanism, 33 on the left.

I The former comprises a paste boX 34, havinga bar 35, a wooden paste furnisher roll 36 constantly rotated in the paste bath, as by a pulley 37, and a belt not shown. A

. doctor-blade 38 engages the paste furnisher roll 36 to evenly distribute the paste over it. A hand paste roll 39 of gelatin, is removably mounted in suitable supporting devices on the paste boX,

The presser mechanism 33 is made up of two pressure rolls 40, 41,in frictional engagement, the'pressure being determined by regulating screws 12; the movement of the rolls being brought about by the crank 13.

My, invention may be used in the following manner The paste being evenly distributed over the paste applying roll 39, Fig. 3, by the rotating paste furnishing roll 36, the paste applying roll is manually rolled over the paste applying plates 9, F ig. 1, and returned to its position upon the furnishing roll. The card holder 5, Fig. 1, abutting the guide collar 3", is moved downward, and the under card 11 brought into engagement with the paste applying plates 9, Fig. 1, which distribute the paste over only so much of the surface of the card, as is to be covered by the patches as 10, Fig. 6. The holder is next raised up off of the plates,slid to the left along the guide rod 3, to a postion determined by guide collar 3 secured to the guide rod by a binding screw 3, when the. outside edges of the pasted portions of the card will correspond with the outside edge portions of the patches 20, Figs. 3 and 1, upon the patch supporting plates 21, Fig.- 1. It. is here assumed that there are, for example, fifty patches in each stack 20, such stacks having been brought as stacks direct from a cutting machine, the patches not being handled separately.

The card holder 5 is moved downward, the exposed card 11 engages the tops of the patch retaining pieces and guide blocks 18, 19, and, overcoming the coil spring 16 upon the central rod 14, comes into contact with the top patch of each stack of patches, the top patches and the pasted portions of the card 11 registering, and being pressed together with an equalizing pressure due to the coil springs 23 upon the rods 22 of the retaining blocks against the underside of the card, as 11, and, as the card holder 5 is raised, enters between each of the patches now afiixed to the card, and the next patch beneath, in the stack, and frees the latter from the former, the latter remaining on the top of the stack. Were it not for this blast of air, more than one patch would be removed from the stack, always provided the weight and finish of the patches are such, that otherwise they would stick together. Likewise, were it not for this standardization of pressure of the pressure rods 22, the moist paste would be forced through one or more patches, having certain weights and finish, and cause more than one patch of the stack to become affixed to the card. After the patches are secured to the card, the holder is raised, the patch box plate 13 rises, and through the connection of the link 31 and the valve-arm 30, closes the blast valve 29; the under card 11 with patches as shown in Fig. 6, is then removed from the holder 5, and drawn through the pressure rolls 40, 41, Fig. 2, by operating the handle 13. The sample card is now complete. The next and subsequent cards in the card holder are subjected to the same operations and so on.

It is, of course, to be understood that my invention may be embodied in diiierent forms from that shown and described, and that the materials of which the various parts of the machine may be made may be varied, without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Further, obviously, the card may be of any size, and the number, size and position of the patches on the card may be changed as required. v i

As the apparatus hereinafter claimed may be used as for making book binding samples, paint samples, and the like, I do not intentionally limit the use of my invention to any particular uses.

Desiring to protect my invention in the broadest manner legally possible,

lVhat I claim is:

1. In apparatus for making sample cards :a card holder; means for applying paste to a card in the holder; resilient means for supporting and retaining one or more stacks of patches; means whereby the card holder may engage said latter means, and bring said pasted card into contact with the top patch of each stack of patches; a pneumatic blast for separating that patch in the stack, next to the patch pasted to, and picked up by the pasted card in the card holder; and means to control the blast while the top patch is being removed from its stack. 1

2. In apparatus for making sample cards :a pivoted card holder; means for applying paste to a card in the holder; a patch box to contain and hold one or more stacks of patches; means whereby the card holder may bring the pasted card into contact with the top patch of each stack; means whereby said box is resiliently mounted in the direction of the axes of the stacks; resilient patch supporting plates, serving as the bottom of the patch box, to standardize the pressure exerted by the card against the top patch of each stack of patches, a pneumatic blast for separating that patch in the stack, next to the patch pasted to and picked up by the card in the card holder; a valve to control said blast; and means connecting said valve and said patch box, whereby the operation of the patch box will seasonably open and close said valve.

3. In apparatus for sample cards :a card holder; means for applyingpaste to a card in the holder; a patch box resiliently mounted, to contain one or more stacks of patches, the upper edge of said box having outlets from air channels in said box, and adjacent to the top patches of the stack or stacks; means whereby the card holder may bring the pasted card into contact with the top patch of each stack; a source of air under pressure; a valve communicating with said source; flexible channels connecting said valve with said air channels in the patch box; and means connecting said box with said valve, whereby the operation of said box will seasonably open and close said valve.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WALTER C. HADLEY.

Witnesses:

HOWARD S. BORDEN, H. G. KING.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

